Storing his clothes, Koujiro wore one of the shirts with a black coat on top of it. He charted a course to the reverse mountain on a piece of paper for a few minutes and then he made a copy for Marcus.
Walking out from his cabin with two pieces of paper in his hand, Koujiro gave one to Robert and the other to Marcus.
"Capt. Is that our course?"
Marcus greeted Koujiro while pointing to the piece of paper in Koujiro's hand.
"Yep, we depart as soon as the crews have finished loading the supplies."
Koujiro handed over the paper to Marcus.
When Koujiro was about to jump back to his ship, he stopped and turned around and walked towards Marcus.
"Almost forget, take this, I found the sword on sale for a cheap price, it's not the best sword around but it's still better than that piece of junk you are carrying around."
Koujiro pointed to the cutlass on Marcus' hip while handing over the Sandai Kitetsu to him.
"Woah, thanks capt, but why does the sword try to control me?"
Marcus asked after feeling the sword tried to take over but he easily surpassed the sword.
"Ooh yeah, it's a cursed sword, but the curse is not that bad, only a weak-minded person will succumb to the sword. Besides, isn't it cool? You're being a cursed captain and wields a cursed sword, not bad heh?"
Koujiro shrugged while tapping Marcus' shoulder and then he jumped back to his ship leaving Marcus thinking by himself.
'Hmm, a cursed captain wielding a cursed sword, it has a nice ring to it.'
Marcus thought while examining the sword.
Not long after Koujiro handed out the sailing course to Robert and Marcus, the crews came back from the town carrying various supplies with them. Once the crews finished loading the supplies, the two ships immediately departed and headed toward the reverse mountain.
"You know that we could just cross the calm belt right capt?"
Jin said while walking up the stairs towards Koujiro who was sitting near the helms on his beach chair.
"Yes, I know, but it's safer and faster than sailing through the calm belt. Besides, not every day you can ride on a reverse current that goes to the top of a mountain."
Koujiro just shrugged while giving Jin a bottle of cold beer.
"Fair enough, so we're going to the paradise first then cross the calm belt to the south blue or we stay on the paradise while Marcus goes to the south blue by himself?"
Jin said while grabbing the beer and leaned on the railing.
"Hmm, staying in paradise seems more fun than going back to the blues, I'll let Marcus know once we enter paradise,"
Koujiro replied while laying back on his beach chair, already topless enjoying the sunlight.
The duo talked about menial things with Robert chimed in here and there while navigating the ship around the island, Koujiro eventually fell asleep on his beach chair after a few bottles of beer leaving Jin and Robert by themselves still talking.
The two ships sailed around the island to avoid the marine that was patrolling near the harbour, the two ships sailing side by side with the Dutchman covering the Queen Anne's Revenge if there was an attack coming from the marine that was patrolling near the island.
After half an hour of going around the island, the two ships were about to leave the island and sail toward the reverse mountain, when a marine patrol ship spotted the Dutchman and began firing their cannons at the Dutchman.
*BOOM … BOOM … BOOM!
Multiple cannons fired by the marine with a few cannonballs hit the side of the Dutchman and waking up Koujiro from his sleep.
"What the fuck?! Can't a man sleep in peace?"
Koujiro stood up from his chair while looking around where the sounds came from.
"It's the marine capt! And they're closing in fast!"
Marcus yelled from the side of his ship towards Koujiro.
"Well, sink them, or just outrun the dogs,"
Koujiro said already aboard the Dutchman while looking towards the marine ship a few hundreds of metres away from them and still chasing them with cannons blasting.
The crews aboard the Dutchman were already running around grabbing cannonballs and weapons preparing the fight, while some of them had already begun to man the cannons.
"I have a clear sight from here capt,"
Jin said while leaning his rifle on the railing and aiming towards the marine ship.
"Fire!"
Koujiro yelled then Jin fired his rifle and the cannons also blasted towards the marine ship.
"Prepare to board!"
Koujiro yelled again after seeing the Marine ship still moving towards them and already closing the distance between them quite fast.
The fifty combat zombies from Queen Anne's Revenge leapt to the Dutchman and readying themselves for combat, while some of the Dutchman crews were already holding hooks and weapons in their hands.
The marine ship approached them with its bow facing towards the side of the Dutchman planning to T bone the Dutchman.
"Heh, good luck on trying to ram the Dutchman."
Koujiro sneered after seeing the marine planning to ram them, he knew very well that the Dutchman was a very durable ship, she can even withstand the rage of the Kraken.
"Brace for impact!"
Marcus yelled before the marine ship hit the side of the Dutchman.
*CRASH!*
The marine ship hit the side of the Dutchman and destroyed the front side of their own ship, while the Dutchman only got scratch marks on her side where the marine ship hit her.
Right after the ships collided, the crews immediately threw their hooks and pulled the two ships closer while the zombies approached the side of the ship preparing to jump over and board the marine ship.
Once the two ships were close enough, the zombies instantly jumped onto the marine ship and began to attack the marines onboard with their fists or straightforward bite the marines.
The lower rank marines instantly got overrun by the brute force of the zombies while the marines that were a little bit stronger struggled for a bit before they also got overrun by the zombies.
The battle finished in a few minutes with the zombies easily ripping the marines apart leaving no survivors. When the last marine fell, Koujiro ordered the zombies to get back to his ship while the Dutchman crews boarded the marine ships and began to plunder the ship clean.
"Hurry up! There's another ship coming."
Marcus yelled at his crew when he saw another marine ship departing from the harbour through his telescope.
The crew quickly took what they could and got back to the Dutchman as soon as they heard Marcus' order. Once the crew were back on the Dutchman, Koujiro used the Sword of Triton to move the parts of the two ships and instantly the two ships gained speed escaping the marine ship that just got out from the harbour easily.
After sailing for around thirty minutes, they entered a storm and not long after they can see the red line ahead of them, the ships gained speed because of the strong sea current and they can saw the waterway that went to the top of the mountain, there were ten square arcs that were decorated with tribal patterns and depictions of sea creatures on the entrance of the waterway.
"Capt, we need you on the helms, the current is too strong and Robert is having a hard time lining us up with the waterway's entrance."
Jin barged into Koujiro's cabin because it's an emergency and they needed to straighten up the ship before they missed the entrance and hit the side of the mountain.
"Out of the way Robert, what about the Dutchman?"
Koujiro immediately ran upstairs and pushed Robert away from the helms as soon as Jin told him about the situation.
"The Dutchman is fine, capt, they have zero problems in this weather."
Jin pointed to the back of the ship where the Dutchman was.
With Koujiro on the helms, he steered the ship away from crashing into the mountain wall then smoothly entered the waterway, they instantly picked up speed from the strong upwards current and reached the peak of the mountain in seconds with the Dutchman following behind them.
They entered paradise smoothly without any problems.
"There's a pirate ship ahead!"
One of the Dutchman crews yelled from on top of the crow's nest.
Jin took out his binoculars and looked in the direction where the pirate ship was. Sure enough, there's a pirate ship in front of them a few kilometres away with a small boat like a coffin following the pirate ship not far from it.
"Order capt?"
Jin said, lowering his binoculars.
"Full speed ahead, we will observe them first, the pirate and the man on the boat do not seem to be on the same side."
Koujiro replied after taking a look at the situation himself he saw that the crews on board the pirate ship were panicking and trying to run away from the small boat that was following them.
"Follow our lead! And wait for further orders from the captain!"
Jin yelled towards the Dutchman and Marcus nodded while manoeuvring the Dutchman to the back of the Queen Anne's Revenge.